See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of
current ecclesial jurisdictions.
This is just a working draft, only posted to make it easier for
collaborators to assist in perfecting the list. The draft ought not be
trusted completely at this stage.
Claes.Tande@katolsk.no
The church reached the Ukrainians in 988, when Prince Volodymyr the Great
established Christianity in its Byzantine-Slavic rite as the national
religion of his country, Kyivan-Rus. This happened before the Great Church
Schism of 1054 divided Christian East from West. The Kyivan Church inherited
the traditions of the Byzantine East and was part of the Patriarchate of
Constantinople. Yet this Church also remained in full communion with the
Latin West and its patriarch, the Pope of Rome. Though Constantinople and
Rome had their disputes, the Kyivan hierarchy tried to work for Christian
unity. Representatives from Rus participated in the Western Councils of Lyon
(1245) and Constance (1418). Isidore, the Metropolitan of Kyiv, was himself
one of the creators of the Union of Florence (1439). While the Kyivan
metropolia was working towards reunion, a new metropolia arose north of
Kyiv, in Moscow. The Church of Moscow refused to accept the Union of
Florence and separated from the ancient metropolia in Kyiv, announcing its
autocephaly (self-governing status) in 1448.
This survey does not list the jurisdictions erected between 988 and the
Great Schism, which started to take hold in this area some time after 1054.
- 1009
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Eger / Erlau (Lat: Agria) - Hungary
- 1772
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White Russia / Mohilev (erected by the Russian tsarina, later sanctioned by
the Holy See, erected from territories of .... ??) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1783
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Mohilev (AD) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1798
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Mohilev (Metr., previously AD) - (Russia) Belarus
- 1804
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Szatmar / Satu Mare (detached from Eger) - (Hungary) Romania
- 1321
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Kijów / Kyiv [Lat.] (detached from ....) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1321
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Zytomierz / Zhytomyr (detached from ....) [Lat.] - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1358
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Wlodzimierz / Vladimir (detached from ....) [Lat.] - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1361
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Halicz / Galyc [Lat.] - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1365
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Lwow / Lviv [Arm.] (AEp) - (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) Ukraine
- 1373~
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Kamieniec / Kamyanets-Podilskyi [Lat.] (detached from ....) - (Poland)
Ukraine
- 1375
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Halicz / Galyc (Metr.) [Lat.] - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1404~
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Luck / Lutsk [Lat.] (detached from ....) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1414
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Lwow / Lviv [Lat.] (Metr., new name, transfer of See from Halicz / Galyc) -
(Poland) Ukraine
- 1425
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Luck and Wlodzimierz / Lutsk and Vladimir [Lat.] (united) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1439
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Kyiv [Ukr./Russ.-Byz.] (Metr., failed attempt at union with Rome, failure evident already 1441) - Ukraine/Russia
- 1492
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Lwow / Lviv [Arm.] (AEp, vacant, later, from 1516, schismatic) - (Grand
Duchy of Lithuania) Ukraine
- 1516
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Lwow / Lviv [Arm.] (AEp, schismatic) - (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) Ukraine
1596 - The Kyivan Church was challenged by the Protestant Reformation and
the renewed Catholicism of that period and was also suffering a serious
internal crisis. The Synod decided to pass under the jurisdiction of the see
of Rome. The traditional Eastern rite of the Kyivan Church was preserved and
its ethnic, cultural and ecclesial existence was guaranteed. This was
confirmed at the Council of Brest in 1596, which is the beginning of the
Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church as an institution. Some hierarchs and
faithful of the Kyivan Church, however, insisted on remaining under the
jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Torn by internal
division, the Central and Eastern sections of Ukraine passed under the
control of the ruler of Moscow in 1654. Soon the Orthodox Kyivan Metropolia
was under the authority of the Moscow Patriarchate (1686). As the Tsarist
Empire grew, it repressed the Greek Catholics and forced "conversions" to
Russian Orthodoxy (1772, 1795, 1839, 1876).
- 1596
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Kijow / Kyiv [Ukr.] (Metr., united with Rome 1596) - (Polish Ukraine)
Ukraine
- 1596
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Luck / Lutsk [Ukr.] (Eparchy united with Rome 1596) - (Polish Ukraine)
Ukraine
- 1597
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Lwow / Lviv [Ukr.] (failed union. Ep. founded 1540, Catholic 1597 and some
few years only) - (Polish Ukraine) Ukraine
- 1630
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Lwow / Lviv [Arm.] (AEp, reunited with Rome) - (Polish Ukraine) Ukraine
- 1638
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Kijów and Czernihow / Kyiv and Chernihiv [Lat.] - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1641
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Munkacs / Mukacheve [Ruth./Byz.] (united with Rome, but the union was
impeded by George Rikoczi I of Transylvania, Lord of Munkacs) - (Hungary)
Ukraine
- 1649/1689
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Munkacs / Mukacheve [Ruth./Byz.] (reunited with Rome, union gradually
realized until it was firm in 1689) - (Hungary) Ukraine
- 1667
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Kijow / Kyiv [Ukr.] (Metr., made into an Orthodoc see after Russian
annexation) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1677/1700
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Lwow / Lviv [Ukr.] (Catholic bishops since 1677 [secretly, openly only
from1700]) - (Polish Ukraine) Ukraine
- 1771
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Munkacs / Mukacheve [Ruth./Byz.] (this de facto already existing diocese was
canonically erected 1771) - (Hungary) Ukraine
- 1778
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Kijów and Czernihow / Kyiv and Chernihiv [Lat.] (abandoned, suppressed by
the Tsar) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1778
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Zytomierz / Zytomyr [Lat.] (abandoned, suppressed by the Tsar) - (Russia)
Ukraine
- 1792
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Luck / Lutsk [Lat.] (abandoned, suppressed by the Russian Tsar) - (Russia)
Ukraine
- 1798
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Kamieniec / Kamyanets-Podilskyi [Lat.] (reestablished) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
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Luck / Lutsk [Lat.] (reestablished) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
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Zytomir / Zhytomyr [Lat.] (this is really the Diocese of Kiev / Kyiv
reestablished by papal decree 1798, but immediately transferred to Zytomir /
Zhytomyr upon Russian request) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1798
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Luck and Zytomierz / Lutsk and Zhytomyr [Lat.] (united) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1807
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Lwow / Lviv [Ukr.] (AEp., had previously been part of the Metr. Province of
Kyiv, but by now Kyiv was Orthodoc) - (...) Ukraine
- 1808
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Lwow / Lviv [Ukr.] (Metr.) - (...) Ukraine
- 1815
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Kamieniec / Kamyanets-Podilskyi [Lat.] (placed under the jurisdiction of
Luck and Zytomierz) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1839
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Luck / Lutsk [Ukr.] (suppressed, forcibly made into an Orthodox see) -
(Russia) Ukraine
- 1848
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Cherson [Lat.] (detached from Mohilev) - (Russia) Ukraine
- 1852
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Tiraspol (new name, previously Cherson) - Russia
- 1866
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Luck, Zytomierz and Kamienec / Lutsk, Zhytomyr and Kamyanets-Podilskyi
[Lat.] (union as Kamieniec / Kamyanets-Podilskyi was suppressed,
administered from Zytomierz / Zytomyr) - (Russian Poland) Ukraine
- 1885
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Stanislawow / Stanislaviv [Ukr.] (detached from Lwow / Lviv) - (Poland)
Ukraine
- 1918
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Kamienec / Kamyanets-Podilskyi [Lat.] (reestablished, detached from Luck
etc. / Lutsk etc.) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1918
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Luck and Zytomierz / Lutsk and Zhytomyr [Lat.] (new name, previously Luck,
Zytomierz and Kamienec / Lutsk, Zhytomyr and Kamyanets-Podilskyi) - (Poland,
Russia) Ukraine
- 1925
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Luck / Lutsk [Lat.] (detached from Luck and Zytomierz / Lutsk and
Zhytomyr) - (Poland) Ukraine
- 1925
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Zytomierz / Zhytomyr [Lat.] (new name) - (Poland) Ukraine
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Erections of Apostolic Administrations without the formal abolition of the
dioceses they supplant:
- Within Mohilev:
- 1926
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Kharkov (AA) - (Soviet Union) Ukraine
- Within Tiraspol:
- 1926
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Odessa (AA, for the southwestern part of the Diocese of Tiraspol) - (Soviet
Union) Ukraine
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- 1963
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Lwow / Lviv [Ukr.] (Major Archeparchy) - (Soviet Union) Ukraine
1991 - last year the Apostolic Administrations of 1926 are mentioned in the
Annuario Pontificio
1991 - As the Latin dioceses of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and of Zhytomyr were
revived after the Soviet era, their territories were extended eastwards
beyond the old eastern borders of Poland all the way to the eastern borders
of the Ukraine with Russia, thus including the territories formally part of
the old Tiraspol diocese and the old Mohilev archdiocese [areas which were
covered de jure by the AAs of Odessa and of Kharkov respectively from 1926
until 1991]. Thus, there are no theoretically "Tiraspol" or "Mohilev"
territories in the Ukraine after this time.)
- 1993
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Ivano-Frankivsk or Stanislaviv [Ukr.] (new name added, previously
Stanislaviv) - Ukraine
- 1993
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Kolomyia-Chernivtsi [Ukr.] (detached from Stanislaviv) - Ukraine
- 1993
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Sambir-Drohobych [Ukr.] (detached from Lviv) - Ukraine
- 1993
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Ternopil [Ukr.] (detached from Lviv) - Ukraine
- 1993
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Zboriv [Ukr.] (detached from Lviv) - Ukraine
- 1993
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Zakarpattia [Lat.] (AA, erected from the part of D Satu Mare now within
Ukraine) - Ukraine
- 1995
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Kyiv-Vyshhorod [Ukr.] (Archieparchial Exarchate, established from Lviv) -
Ukraine
- >1998
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Kyiv-Zhytomyr [Lat.] (new name, previously Zhytomyr) - Ukraine
- 2000
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Bucac [Ukr.] (detached from Ternopil) - Ukraine
- 2000
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Sokal [Ukr.] (detached from Lviv, and from Ternopil) - Ukraine
- 2000
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Stryj [Ukr.] (detached from Lviv) - Ukraine
- 2000
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Ternopil-Zboriv [Ukr.] (united) - Ukraine
- 2002
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Donets'k-Kharkiv [Ukr.] (Archieparchial Exarchate, detached from
Kyiv-Vyshhorod) - Ukraine
- 2002
- Mukacheve [Lat.] (D restored, and new name, previously AA Zakarpattia) - Ukraine
- 2002
- Kharkiv-Zaporizhia [Lat.] (detached from Kyiv-Zhytomir, and from Kamyanets-Podilskyi) - Ukraine
- 2002
- Odessa-Simferopol [Lat.] (detached from Kamyanets-Podilskyi) - Ukraine
- 2003
- Odessa-Krym [Ukr.] (Archieparchial Exarchate, detached from Kyiv-Vyshhorod) - Ukraine
